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 In February 1929, pilot Patterson flew the little //Northern Light// from Mayo to Whitehorse and lost his bearings when he ran into heavy fog and a storm. He made a landing on the Takhini River, about thirty miles from Whitehorse, and he and his passengers, Tom Fornier and Miss M. Duval, camped for the night.  Patterson had no difficulty locating himself once he was in the air the next morning.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 22 February 1929.)) In March, Patterson successfully flew through severe snow storms to deliver a passenger to Mayo and a caterpillar crank case to the Walker Fork Mining Company at Forty Mile.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 15 March 1929.))
-In March 1929, Bert Petersen, in charge of deepening the navigation channel at Five Finger Rapids, was able to get parts from Vancouver to repair some broken machinery in about six days. Peterson wired D.A. Muirhead in the Whitehorse White Pass office, who wired the company’s purchasing department in Seattle. The parts left Vancouver on the //Princess Mary// and were transferred from the Skagway wharf to the train depot by car. The parts arrived at the Whitehorse train depot and were transferred to the //Northern Light,// and pilot Petterson took them to a small lake near Carmacks. They were transferred by dog team to Carmacks, and Sandy Grant took them the last 12 miles with a horse and hastily constructed sled improvised by “Slim” Koebke, the handyman at the camp.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 29 March 1929.))
+In March 1929, Bert Petersen, in charge of deepening the navigation channel at Five Finger Rapids, was able to get parts from Vancouver to repair some broken machinery in about six days. Peterson wired D.A. Muirhead in the Whitehorse White Pass office, who wired the company’s purchasing department in Seattle. The parts left Vancouver on the //Princess Mary// and were transferred from the Skagway wharf to the train depot by car. The parts arrived at the Whitehorse train depot and were transferred to the //Northern Light,// and pilot Patterson took them to a small lake near Carmacks. They were transferred by dog team to Carmacks, and Sandy Grant took them the last 12 miles with a horse and hastily constructed sled improvised by “Slim” Koebke, the handyman at the camp.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 29 March 1929.))
 In September 1929, Patterson went to St. Louis to take delivery of the new plane, the //Queen of the Yukon II.//((Linda E.T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 430.)) The pilots barnstormed up the coast but lost the motor at Ocean Falls. They flew to Dawson where they had a contract to fly the Royal Mail at $175 an hour. The two company planes met at Mayo, the small plane flown by Percy Nelson and the larger one, //Queen of the Yukon II,// flown by Patterson.((Don Stewart, //Sourdough Ray.// Coos Bay, Oregon: Gorst Publications, 1983.))